Device for gauging and bagging a group of articles



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Patented July 19, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT orrlca DEVICE FOR GAUGINGAND BAGGING A GROUP OF ARTICLES Newton V. Baum, Baltimore, Md.Application July 10, 1947, Serial No. 759,968

Claims. 1

This invention relates to a device for gag n and bagging a group ofarticles.

One object of this invention is to provid a device by which arrangedgroups of cookies and other articles can be bagged more quickly andneatly than by any means or method previously known to me in years ofexperience in producing and bagging cookies or similar articles.

Other objects and important features are pointed out or implied in thefollowing details of description in connection with the accompanyingdrawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a left-side view of the tested, practical form of theinvention mounted on a table of which only a portion is shown, portionsof the supporting means being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a top-plan view of the device of Fig. 1, portions broken away.

Fig. 3 is a view partly in side elevation, partly in vertical sectionalong its median plane.

- Fig. 4 is a view partly in cross-section, showing a relatively largeplate clamped on the relatively small plate that is a part of the meansfor pushing the groups of articles into the respective bags.

Fig. 5 is a fragmental exploded view of the invention.

Fig. 6 is a fragmental view, partly in section, showing a modified formof the combined pusherrod-guide and channel-clamp-bar.

Referring to these drawings in detail, in which similar referencenumerals and letters represent similar parts throughout the severalviews or drawings, the invention is now described in detail as follows:

This invention relates to a device for gaging and bagging a group ofarticles, especially such as cookies, crackers, cracker-sandwiches,candycakes or patties and wafers, etc., whether angular or circular.

The invention includes, broadly, a channel-unit 1 comprising side-wallsIw and a floor lb and having an open front If and an open top-portion atIt (Figs. 2 and 3), in combination with supporting means 8 (Fig. 1) onwhich said channelunit l'is normally secured and supported in anapproximately horizontal position at which said articles 0 can be passeddown through said open top-portion and grouped on said floor lb, saidfront being adapted to enter the mouth of an open bag (not shown), inreceiving position at said front, and pushing means 9 operable in saidchannel-unit for pushing said group of articles as at 0' through saidopen front If and into said bag when the latter is held in saidreceiving position.

The channel-unit 'I is supported with the front end of said floor lbhigher than other parts of The front ends of the walls 'Iw are inclinedat- 12 from their tops, to said floor lb, so they are effective towidely open the mouth of a bag when said bag is caused to receive thefront end of said floor and is moved rearward to said tops of the walls1w.

The supporting means comprises a normally vertical downwardly extendingpivot 8p, and a socket 8sc provided with means 8m to secure it to atable or the like in a normally vertical position, said pivot beingadapted to be adjusted rotatively and vertically in said socket, andmeans are provided to secure said pivot in its various adjustments insaid socket, such means being shown at Bss in the form of a set-screw.

Clamping means II or 101: are operable to clamp said channel-unit onsaid support 8 and to release the channel-unit from said support 8, sochannel-units of similar construction but of different dimensions can beoperatively engaged with said support and correlated with said pushingmeans 9 so as to bag articles and groups of various dimensions.

A combined clamping means In or like and pusher-guide ing, which latteris also a hingeelement, is hinged at ltlh. to the rear end of saidsupporting means 8 and comprises a, normally erect portion provided witha guide-opening I00 therethrough, a clamp-bar or pusher-guiding bar IE0or Inca: has one end united with said hingeelement log, the opposite endof said clamp-bar being normally erect as at Nice and being the frontpusher-guide-element having a pusher guide-opening lilgo therethrough,and the main intermediate portion of said clamp-bar being normallyagainst said floor lb of said channel-unit. Manipulative means lllm,such as a wing-nut is normally engaged with said support 8 and clampbarI00 for clamping said channel-unit 1 on said supporting means 8 andreleasing the channelunit from said supporting means. The pushing meanscomprises a rodlp that extends through.

the openings of said clamp-bar lllc or lllca: and hinge-element and isslidable therethrough, said hinge-element Illg or lflgx being effectiveto keep said clamp-bar andpushing means intact with said support 8 forconvenience of the user while changing from one channel-unit to anotherchannel-unit.

A bag-controlling means II is a bent plate pivotally mounted; above; thefront portion of said;

4 to enter the mouth of an open bag in receiving position at said front,a combined clamping means and pusher-guide hinged to the rear end ofsaid supporting means and comprising a hinge-element having a normallyerect portion provided with a guide-opening therethru, and pushing meansslidable in said pusher-guide and operable in said channel-unit forpushing said group of anticles through said opensfriont'andiinto saidbag channel-unit and has a free depending lower end 10 when the latteris'held in' said receiving position.

portion in the path of the group of articles when being pushed towardsaid open front and is movable by pressure of said articles: to;theaupperr-i inner part of the bags mouth when the bagis-im thereceiving position around said front forpre venting interference of thebags mouth with the articles being bagged. V

The pushing means comprises a relatively. small 2. The combinationdefined by claim 1, and 'means pivotally mounted above the front portionofssaimchanneleunit and having a free lower portion in the saidchannel-unit in the path of la h i roupryof articles when being pushedtoward said front and movable by pressure of said artiplate l2, thepush-rod fip um'ted with the central" part of said plate, and arelatively large springy plate Ithav ing opposite edge-portions; I 3eturned toward one another and having their-free edges spaced from themain parzt'of the springy-platel3; 'sufnciently to permitopposite'edgesof said. relatively smallplate l2=to-be slid into and-outof clamping engagement-of said-free edges and said main part of thespringy plate In Fig. 4 is showna second springy plate I3ac off sameconstruction-as that in Figs. 1 andi3; but: of' a differentsizeyandinterchangeable there within clamped position on the: relativelysmall plate 12: r

Any appropriate means may be employed for securingthe partsof thisdevice together, for instance, screws s, nails-n; welding 10,- etc. i

In operating thisde-vice; the user first-adjusts the height and angle bymanipulation of the ele ments 83s and 8:0 withrespeet to the socket8'sc-;-

then passes cakes, cookies or crackers,- 61302;

through the openipart of: the channel- 1- to=the mm H), in the mannershown at cccc,- in-front of thepusher 9} the W-idth of the: channel-unit'l and 'anumber; oftransverse sub-groups of the articles determining thevolum -of; the entire group to be pushed into the-bag (not'shown) thatrests on'the element 88 with :the partli initsmouth; then while the bag-isheld=in-receiving position by one hand of Jthe-user; his or: herother: hand pushes the handle filuforwardgv thereby causing i thepusher= 9 to push the articles against- :the plate H'solasto-.moveit-forwardly:and up Wardly: against the upperrinnernsurface of1the bags mouthwhilethe groupofl'articles passes into. the bag without.interference ofg'anycparttof' the-bag-mouth; whereupon, theuserreturnsthe pusher to the rear position showndniFig. 3; and repeats theoperationabove described;

I haveno intentionctolim-it my patentgprotecai tion to the precisedetail"of-ithe draw-ingsior: of thefforegoingl description, for the.invention.. is susceptible of inumerou'schangesiwithin the; scope of;.the inventive ideas as-implied and'zclaimedis My invention is claimedas follows: 1-. In'ia deviceiforggaginggand bagging a groupof.;ar,ticles, a channeleunit com-prisingside-wa1ls and-a floor andhaving-an ;open frontzand an open top.-,p0rtion, in. combination; with;supporting means on. which said; channelrunit z issvnorm-ally securedand supportedjin amapproxirnatety horig zental v position at s which;said;, -;articles; i can lpbe passcdflowu; throu hsaidnpemtopepcrtiemand ereune 0 :s o a s id Q tb inewu -t u e 01551170the upper-inner part of a bags mouth when the bag is in the receivingposition around said' open front, for preventing interference of thebags mouth with the articles being bagged. 3%;Thecombination. defined byclaim- 1, said pusher-guide comprising a pusher-guidingbar: having oneend united" with said. hinge-element, theiopposite end of=saidipushersguiding bar being normally. erect and having-aguide-openingthere thru in open: communication with; the first-said:guide-opening; for cooperation in.- guiding said. pushing means.

4 The combination defined by claim .1, said pusher-guide, comprisingacpusher-guiding bar; having one end: united:.w-ith..said.hinge-element, the opposite end of said pusherl-guiding.barybeing;normally erect and having "a guide=opening therethI'LHfOI cooperation.with the. first. said uguide openingfor. guiding said pushing means,themain' intermediate; part 'ofisaid pusher-guiding ban bQ IgnwmaHmagainst said floor, ofc'said channelunit, and manipulative means;normally engaged Withsaid supporting meansv and pusher-guiding barfonremov-ably, securing; saidichanneleunitin its-1normaLcooperativerelation to .saidrsupporting meanssand=pushing-;means.

1 ,In;the;. combination:definedrby claim 1, said. pusher-guide.comprising; a front. apertured erect. portion; said .fpus-hing meanscomprising arod that extends thru said pusher-guideandhas.-amanipulative element united {therewith and extending; upward;therefrom to; a; distance above said erect portion of -said-pusher-guideand being; efZective-tmoperatesaidirod and to abut against s aidfronterect portion 'forv'limiting pushing; movements ofsaid pushingmeans-.4 I

' NEWTON v. BAUM.

REFERENCES v- CITED The cfollowingreferences: are' of 1 record in thefile-0fv this patent:

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